Consultant Contracts in Leicester

Consultant
Leicestershire > Leicester

The median Consultant daily rate in Leicester is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 23 21
Rank change year-on-year +15 -2 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Consultant 12 2 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leicester 10.81% 1.79% 3.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.65% 1.85% 3.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 4
10th Percentile £500 - £551
25th Percentile £519 - £591
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +53.37%
75th Percentile £625 - £656
90th Percentile - - £690
Leicestershire median daily rate £600 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +53.37%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Leicester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Leicester. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Leicester with a recognized job title 103 108 181
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 96.43% 93.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 92 153
10th Percentile £138 £263 £289
25th Percentile £319 £333 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £415 £400
Median % change year-on-year +9.04% +3.75% -5.88%
75th Percentile £600 £450 £488
90th Percentile £625 £563 £591
Leicestershire median daily rate £375 £395 £400
% change year-on-year -5.06% -1.25% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 7
10th Percentile £14.98 £12.98 £14.17
25th Percentile £19.81 £14.08 £14.91
Median hourly rate £25.00 £20.32 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.03% +16.11% +9.38%
75th Percentile £27.81 £22.73 £45.84
90th Percentile £28.38 £41.75 £46.67
Leicestershire median hourly rate £25.00 £20.32 £18.50
% change year-on-year +23.03% +9.84% +15.63%

Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

Job postings that featured Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leicester.

Job vacancy trend for Consultant in Leicester

Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leicester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Consultant in Leicester.

Daily rate trend for Consultant in Leicester

Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leicester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Consultant in Leicester.

Hourly rate trend for Consultant in Leicester

Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicester

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Leicester region featuring Consultant in the job title.

1 4 (33.33%) Oracle
1 4 (33.33%) SAP
1 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) Order to Cash
1 4 (33.33%) Record to Report
1 4 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
1 4 (33.33%) OCI
2 3 (25.00%) RBAC
2 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (25.00%) OAuth
2 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Bash
2 3 (25.00%) OpenID
2 3 (25.00%) SailPoint
2 3 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (25.00%) Okta
2 3 (25.00%) Agile
2 3 (25.00%) SAML
2 3 (25.00%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) LDAP
2 3 (25.00%) Web Services
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (16.67%) ABAP
3 2 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (16.67%) SAP MM
3 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (8.33%) VMware

Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 4 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (16.67%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) OCI
2 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) SAN
1 1 (8.33%) VPN
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) LDAP
1 3 (25.00%) OAuth
1 3 (25.00%) OpenID
1 3 (25.00%) SailPoint
1 3 (25.00%) SAML
1 3 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
1 1 (8.33%) Windows 10
1 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Order to Cash
1 4 (33.33%) Record to Report
2 3 (25.00%) Agile
2 3 (25.00%) RBAC
3 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Bash
1 3 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Oracle
1 4 (33.33%) SAP
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) Okta
3 1 (8.33%) Citrix
3 1 (8.33%) VMware